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<span class="top">The Book of Exodus</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<td class="v">23:1</td>
<td>Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.</td>
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<td class="v">23:2</td>
<td>Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:</td>
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<td class="v">23:3</td>
<td>Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.</td>
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<td class="v">23:4</td>
<td>If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.</td>
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<td class="v">23:5</td>
<td>If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.</td>
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<td class="v">23:6</td>
<td>Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.</td>
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<td class="v">23:7</td>
<td>Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.</td>
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<td class="v">23:8</td>
<td>And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.</td>
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<td class="v">23:9</td>
<td>Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.</td>
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<td class="v">23:10</td>
<td>And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:</td>
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<td class="v">23:11</td>
<td>But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.</td>
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<td class="v">23:12</td>
<td>Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.</td>
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<td class="v">23:13</td>
<td>And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.</td>
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<td class="v">23:14</td>
<td>Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.</td>
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<td class="v">23:15</td>
<td>Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)</td>
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<td class="v">23:16</td>
<td>And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.</td>
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<td class="v">23:17</td>
<td>Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.</td>
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<td class="v">23:18</td>
<td>Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.</td>
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<td class="v">23:19</td>
<td>The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.</td>
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<td class="v">23:20</td>
<td>Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.</td>
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<td class="v">23:21</td>
<td>Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.</td>
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<td class="v">23:22</td>
<td>But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.</td>
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<td class="v">23:23</td>
<td>For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.</td>
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<td class="v">23:24</td>
<td>Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.</td>
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<td class="v">23:25</td>
<td>And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.</td>
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<td class="v">23:26</td>
<td>There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.</td>
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<td class="v">23:27</td>
<td>I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.</td>
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<td class="v">23:28</td>
<td>And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.</td>
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<td class="v">23:29</td>
<td>I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.</td>
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<td class="v">23:30</td>
<td>By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.</td>
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<td class="v">23:31</td>
<td>And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.</td>
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<td class="v">23:32</td>
<td>Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.</td>
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<td class="v">23:33</td>
<td>They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.</td>
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